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Microsoft Confirms That Bungie Is Developing New 'Halo'

MTV Multiplayer writes:

In an interview shot for MTV News on Tuesday, Microsoft's head of Xbox business Don Mattrick, confirmed to me that Bungie is indeed working on a new "Halo" game of some sort for Microsoft.

I had been asking Mattrick about the lack of "Halo" news at E3. He said that Microsoft's Monday press conference was already loaded with content and so any announcements for that series weren't needed to get gamers excited.

I pushed him on the lack of presence for the series and asked him if we should be worried about the no-show of Ensemble Studio's real-time-strategy game "Halo Wars." Not only did Mattrick say not to worry and that announcements would be coming, he also said that Microsoft is working with Bungie on a "Halo" game.

I asked for clarification, wondering if Mattrick meant Bungie's project was "Halo Wars" or the long-announced Peter Jackson "Halo" project. Neither, Mattrick said. The Bungie game is something else.

And then, not surprisingly, the topic was changed...
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Published: 513 days 3 hours ago | News | E3 2008 | Xbox 360
 
 

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1 Hydrolex | 513 days 3 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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donator - 513 days 3 hours ago
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Maybe it will be a prequel. I don't understand why they need to make another Halo though. It was different with Metal Gear Solid 4 since there were a lot of questions unanswered in the previous games. MGS4 wrapped it all up pretty nicely. Halo 3 did that for the Halo series, so what's next for Halo 4?

Is it for the fans or could it be a sign of troubled waters for the 360?

EDIT: MGS4 was also needed to push consoles, no one can deny that. But Halo 4 isn't going to get that many more people to buy an Xbox, so why the need for another Halo? But at the same time, I guess I can ask myself, why do we need MGS5?
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Ghoul - 513 days 3 hours ago
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so is that the only thing ms has up its sleeves ?

halo wars
and a new halo ?
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Madgunner - 513 days 3 hours ago
1.3 - donator
ur right... but at the same time MGS4 is such a better game in terms of storyline, Compared to Solid snake... Master Chief is nothing more than a jester next to him
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morganfell - 513 days 3 hours ago
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Well the series is screwed. HALO is a great series and I really like it.

But here is why it is going in the crapper.

Ghost Recon was a great game. It had two great mission packs. Then Christian Allen gets hired at RSE and craps all over the franchise turning it into GRAW. Tactical play and realism were the first things to go. Now he has been hired at Bungie and will use his hairbrained ideas to ruin another game series as well. I know the guy, worked with him. He is an idiot.
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Polluted - 513 days 3 hours ago
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Maybe they're making Halo RPG for cell phones.
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morganfell - 513 days 3 hours ago
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HALO Lego...
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P4KY B - 513 days 2 hours ago
2.2 - HALO lego would kick ass.
Just imagine the flood, thousands of disembodied lego heads chasing you.
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solidt12 - 512 days 19 hours ago
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Halo Legos I think would actually be a good idea. Kids and adults would love it.
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u got owned - 512 days 19 hours ago
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Halo Lego would be so cool!!! And give me some Halo Lego Multiplayer too. Imaging your head been shot by a Lego sniper, now that would fun. lol.
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Bubble Buddy - 512 days 9 hours ago
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Lego solves lots of things these days don't they? :p
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jaja1434 - 512 days 7 hours ago
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^^^
In the future our lego cars will run on lego fuel...just you wait!
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pwnsause - 513 days 3 hours ago
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seriously you think bungie was going to announce anything else? seriously, they were going to release all that Info today so that they can overshadow Sony's E3 conference, but bungie was not allowed to do so today, cause microsoft said so. I see what you did there microsoft. very funny. Funny if there arent big improvements from halo 3 to this game.
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gaffyh - 512 days 21 hours ago
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Lol they could have announced a sequel to Oni (PS2). LMAO
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himdeel - 512 days 20 hours ago
3.2 - As long as they make it...
...the BEST HALO evah in life and in death I will be pleased. I hope that it's so good it make all the other HALO games look and play like poo poo.
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Halochampian - 512 days 19 hours ago
3.3 - @3.1
real funny... but Bungie doesn't have rights to Oni.
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Panthers - 512 days 16 hours ago
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Ha I still have Oni. It was fun but hard.
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The Lazy One - 512 days 6 hours ago
3.5 - Halo 3 didn't end the story
Anyone who watched the credits knows it doesn't end MC's story. It ends the MC/Covenant/Flood (maybe not the flood) story arc.

MC is still very clearly alive, and still stuck in the middle of nowhere on ??? planet. It's very possible they are going to tie halo into marathon, which wouldn't really be a horrible thing.

Also, it could be a non-MC related halo title. more like a front lines shooter as opposed to MC, who was mostly special ops in the games.

Or it could be anything from the books. There is a lot of story left in the halo universe that could be made.

Personally, I think a halo themed combat racer would be sweet. of course it wouldn't fit into the story at all, but it would be fun...

my .02
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UnRivaLeD - 513 days 3 hours ago
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this is the only thing microsoft has lmao with out it MS wouldnt be here
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Panthers - 512 days 16 hours ago
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No one is arguing that. Xbox wouldnt have survived with it. It was the reason I got an Xbox, only to take it back after beating Halo 2.
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Prismo_Fillusion - 513 days 3 hours ago
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I thought Bungie said that Halo 3 was the last Halo they'd be working on. Am I wrong?
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pwnsause - 513 days 3 hours ago
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apparently not, i want to see a new ip or revive an old ip from bungie, but it looks like they love the same old repetitive Halo.
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farsided - 513 days 3 hours ago
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it'll probably be the last time they work on the chief at least for a while.
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morganfell - 513 days 3 hours ago
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I don't think you are wrong. It is a misunderstanding taken out of context. That guy isn't going to offhandedly reveal what has been kept under wraps and teased with a viral campaign.

Reports have been leaking out that Bungie is working on a previous IP but not HALO. They are advising on 3 other HALO titles - HALO Wars, the Peter Jackson HALO project, and HALO4 in development at Gearbox software.

However, first and foremost people need to go back and reread what the article says. It doesn't say Bungie is developing a new HALO game. It says MS is working with Bungie on a new HALO game. Think about what that means. "WITH" It doesn't necessarily mean that Bungie is developing a new HALO game. It's like saying EA is working with EON on a new Bond game. EON isn't making the Bond game, they are making the movie, EA is making the game. But EON are the Bond experts and EA is working "with" them.

It's the same as saying EA developer X is working with Tiger Woods on the new PGA game. Tiger isn't developing it, but he is working "with" them as an adviser. Which I would guess is what MS is doing. They are working "with" Bungie even though Bungie is not the developer.
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Halochampian - 512 days 19 hours ago
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It was the last game of the Halo arc. Doesn't mean last game they were working on for the Halo universe.
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yaboi - 512 days 8 hours ago
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y would bungie do this i mean they need to come up with another game.
i mean c'mon give us something new, something we haven't seen yet in stead the same old halo.

my opinion so halo fanboys don't get mad!!
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morganfell - 513 days 3 hours ago
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Oh look:

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

It is you in a Sony thread trying to do damage control. And MS doesn't even have a handheld, just a money pit device known as a zune balloon.
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donator - 513 days 2 hours ago
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Real Mod, seriously, take it to the Open Zone. So far, there's only like 2-3 posts that actually "bash" Halo. The other comments fall within the Gamer Zone guidelines. Your comments, however, usually never fall within the guidelines. So go to the Open Zone.

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...
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morganfell - 513 days 2 hours ago
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Just look at his attacks in this thread:

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...
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donator - 513 days 2 hours ago
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Hahaha
"Another war shooter? Are you serious? Yeah because we don't have enough of these type of games. Wow! Sony dropped the ball big time at E3." - A Real Mod commenting about MAG.

So a shooter on the 360 is fine, but when it's on the PS3, it's not okay. Funny. Either he's a really blind fanboy with no shame or he's using a fake account to incite flame wars. Either way, I don't like him.
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farsided - 513 days 3 hours ago
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it's because it's not regarding the mc but unsc marines (maybe odst's?) it was mentioned earlier that this would be a new trilogy in the halo universe, but would be a completely different series, as well as genre (squad based shooter) bungie probably just wanted to announce it themselves, that's why they're waiting until tomorrow.
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donator - 513 days 3 hours ago
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So they're making another three games based on the marines? Hopefully it'll turn out okay and not suffer like Star Wars Episodes 1-3.
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Superfragilistic - 513 days 1 hour ago
7.2 - You're right, it looks like its a squad based shooter
I posted another article that went into what this Bungie Halo and Superintendent actually are.

http://www.n4g.com/events_e...

Seems like they're going a hell of a lot more realistic and have got the lead designer from GRAW in charge of the new Halo...

I won't diss it yet, because if there's any chance of a GRAW meets Full Spectrum Warrior game in the Halo Universe (they suggest in Kenya) with online 4/8 player co-op, I'll be mightily interested! :)

I hope they're right about a new Oni to! ;)
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Strife Lives - 513 days 3 hours ago
8 - Right. . .
Well. Down here is South Africa,they never officially released the original xbox.and since the PS1 obliterated sega here,the PS2 was the natural next gen step to take.so while the U.S blasted away with Halo hype, we got blown away with Timesplitters and Red Faction,which both rocked.but last year the Halo hype train hit and everyone went Halo crazy ! Even me. wanted to finish a fight,After just starting it. But everybody liked it I think.me included.offcourse the graphics needed work,but it was k.I for one would love this next game to be both a prequal to the Halo saga with the chief,but. . .also Halo 1 remake attached to it.so you would play the prequal . . .and then they totally tie it in with Halo 1.but u dnt play the chief.alternativly,Halo 3 left some unanswerd questions.lyk that planet where and Chief were drifting too. I could always. . .finish the fight . . .again. . In Halo4. . .just. . .make a new game engine from the ground up,and if its a new planet.new enemy.change the art style ! ! More grittiness.less purple.
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Omega4 - 513 days 3 hours ago
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they must have thought sonys conference was extremely poor to not announce this megaton. And for everyone who says its a milked franchise just look at grand turismo, ratchet and clank, final fantasy, meteal gear, grand theft auto, mario, zelda and tell me that Halo has been milked. All these games sell well even after years of milking why the hell wouldnt MS do the same!
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Ps3Fanboy777 - 513 days 3 hours ago
10 - I thought I finished the fight?
I dont get it? Seriously why did they market it like that why didnt they just say this is the next halo?
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Superfragilistic - 513 days 1 hour ago
10.1 - You might have finished MC's fight, but maybe not UNSC or others?
If they do something other than an FPS I'll be taking notice. :)
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Strife Lives - 513 days 3 hours ago
11 - Im not going to be dissing. . .
But Gran Turismo has been telling me to expect damage since I was 11 yrs old.Im lyk. . .21 now.its always the next game. Thats milking a franchise.I do feel a bit. . .dissapointed in Halo 3. . .but,hey,I still loved it in the end. Its still a fun fps.
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Fishy Fingers - 513 days 3 hours ago
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Id rather they were used for new IP, Bungie are a great studio, look what they created when given the chance before (Halo 1), why wont MS loosen the reigns and let them try something else? Why not try and use Bungie to forge (pun) the XBOX's next big thing?
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Prismo_Fillusion - 513 days 3 hours ago
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I absolutely agree. In my opinion Halo1>Halo2>Halo3 - that should be enough of a sign that it's time for Bungie to work on a new IP. It's definitely a talented studio, but I really think that MS has constricted them (and it's their fault too, as they took the money for it).

Hopefully they're not stuck making Halo games for the next 15 years...
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Superfragilistic - 513 days 1 hour ago
12.2 - @Fishy
I posted this other article that says that Bungie's Halo is most likely a "gritty" squad based shooter in Kenya, and that Superintendent will most likely be the rebirth of Oni!

http://www.n4g.com/events_e...

Oni's manga style would look awesome on HD and could do with a resurrection, particularly as they never got to take it online! :)
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aaron5829 - 513 days 3 hours ago
13.1 - LOL
Really ?
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yaboi - 512 days 8 hours ago
13.2 - omg dood
ever since the ffxiii thing has happened u have became a pain in the @ss i mean c'mon get a life. noone is crying over final fantasy its gonna be a good game. The ps3 version will be better. and u just can't seem to get that in your head.
SO BACK OFF AND LETS ALL PLAY SOME GOOD GAMES!!!!

end my ranting on a #$%^head
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jaja1434 - 512 days 7 hours ago
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^^^
So it's wrong for him to make stupid comments, but it's ok for you to say "going to be better on..."?

I just ask because since no one outside out SQ has any clue has to how it will be on either system and all we have seen is a CGI trailer, no one knows what the end result will be. So really you're just making another blind statement that is no better nor worse than the other guy.

Seems kind of silly to me. *shrug*
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yaboi - 512 days 7 hours ago
13.4 - well
first i wasn't talking to u
second ps3 is the LEAD platform so yeah it will be better
on the ps3. SE has been working on this for ps3 for while and has just started on 360 so yeah!
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jaja1434 - 512 days 6 hours ago
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Lead systems does not mean anything these days. Pretty much every game, except for that dreaded HL2, that is multi looks and plays exactly the same as the other. At the moment the only real argument based on actually facts is that the PS3 will use BR and the 360 will, more than likely use multiple disc. If you want to use that as your argument, go ahead but that would just be grasping for straws.

Anything else is, as I already said, nothing more than blind guess.
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aaron5829 - 513 days 3 hours ago
14 - Master Chief...
The new Mario. ;)
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Halochampian - 512 days 19 hours ago
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Halo =/= Master Chief
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